Where and how does an artist and poet from Athens meet a writer and professor of comparative literature at Harvard University? What are the existential and philosophical dimensions of walking? Can nostalgia define our actions, within …a camp? Visual artist and poet Maria Zervos, introduces walking as a life choice and connects walking with the recalling of memory and the shaping of identity in her new work The Camp, curated by Syrago Tsiara and presented for the first time at the MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki.

The person that inspired Zervos is Svetlana Boym (1959-2015), author and comparative literature professor at Harvard University, with whom the artist was closely related during her own study and teaching at the same academic institution. Common experiences and research interests between the two of them drove Zervos to film a path of memory reformulation and searching of repressed moments in Boym’s past, inside a refugee camp outside Vienna, where the latter stayed in 1981 during her immigration from her homeland, Leningrad, during the Soviet Union era, to Boston, USA.

The central three channel projection is completed with testimonies and people’s narrations that lived close to Boym, collaborated or were taught by the standout professor and is growing as a space passage of reattachment and discovery of buried stories within the museum space.

The exhibition is supported by NEON